Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky

Quotes

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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